Landlords have their place. However, it's filling the niche between hotels and home ownership. Maybe 20% of housing, at most.
The current crop of value syphons are not a good thing. Unfortunately they are a symptom, not a cause. If housing supply was high enough, then the margins for landlord would shrink enough to get rid of a lot of them.
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Synthaxx@kbin.social · 26 pts · 3y
Let's try not to use gendered language.
"Landbastard" is the preferred designation.
MostlyBirds@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
I think "landleech" rolls of the tongue better, but it feels wrong to compare them to something that plays a legitimate role in its ecosystem.
RagingHungryPanda@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
A landbastard also implies there's a seabastard, skybastards, and firebastard
_wintermute@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Call them the derogatory term that they are: Capitalists.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 3y
ye, this is an old meme from my reddit download. will keep that in mind if I get to making housing related memes
thisNotMyName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
r/landchads would be really sad about this landphobia :/
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 3y
for leeches I only have r/Landlordlove
cynar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Landlords have their place. However, it's filling the niche between hotels and home ownership. Maybe 20% of housing, at most.
The current crop of value syphons are not a good thing. Unfortunately they are a symptom, not a cause. If housing supply was high enough, then the margins for landlord would shrink enough to get rid of a lot of them.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 3y
the cause is that under capitalism housing is treated like a commodity and not the basic human need it is